Exciting times Saturday 17th October sees the culmination of the Wick Speaks! project, a collaboration with the exciting interactive East London international artists of The People Speak. We’ve been out in the Wick, collecting stories from local people who are going to feature in an online tour, tomorrow. It’s free and anyone can join. BOOK…
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Look Up For Inspiration: Alternative Statue Tour
We’re very lucky in Hackney to have a tradition of changemakers and pioneers. The history here is full of brave figures who stood up for everything from the Abolition of Slavery through to gender equality and no war. It carries on today, with a river of consciousness that manifests itself in contemporary activism and also…
Follow Me – I’m Lost!
FREE exploration of Pyschogeography for Antiunversity 2019…
Changing Bermondsey, Gothic Abney After Dark
As winter draws in and it’s tempting to hibernate, there are still reasons to get out and exercise. This Saturday sees another free out-of-borough walk for Hackney Council. We’ll be having a little walk around
Debord and Chips? Situationist Charabanc to Margate
Adventure always! Hackney Tours has been up to the North following Ermine Street to its Roman conclusion; nightwalking in Kent on the trail of Dickens with Inspiral London; wild camping to report on shipping movements and smuggling
Really Discover East London!
Radical History Lover? Curious Local? Love Photography? Something for Everyone… It’s been a busy summer, so you may have missed the Hampstead Heath walk for Hackney Council or the literary adventure that was our trip to a Margate book festival in the guise of Half Day Holidays. I took some Wickers around Hackney Wick to…
East End Independents’ Day & Well Street Market – Free Walk
East End Independents’ Day: Well Street Market launches tomorrow! We’ve been exploring community a lot recently and many of you have been part of that. One of the ways it’s built is through markets. They’re a great space for people to come together. Tomorrow will see an exciting afternoon in Homerton: the launch of a…
In Strange Times, Events For Us to Talk & Connect?
These are tumultuous times. In response we’re stepping up our communal activities. Winter is here but we’re not slowing down. There’s walking, talking and connecting to be done… The civic sphere is where we’re going to find each other and make sense of this year. Whatever happens, surely conversations are where any solutions will start?…
FREE Chatsworth Road Festival walk this Sunday
As part of the Chatsworth Road Festival this Sunday, you can get our ‘Connect with Clapton, Discover Extraordinary E5’ walk free! Just turn up at the information stall at 11am on Sunday and we’ll discover what makes this such a special place.
A Tour Around You! Free ANTIUNIVERSITY Hackney Wick Walk
East London explorers, urbanists and innovators – come and join us for an artistic experiment this Friday as part of the FREE ANTIUNIVERSITY of East London weekend of events. Disrupting the conventional model of a tour, we’re going to try something new: taking a tour of YOU. The idea is a participatory and generative walking…
Hackney Wick: See It While It Lasts
Thanks to some last minute cancellations, we still have several places on tomorrow’s Hackney Council walk around the wonder that is Hackney Wick. This guided tour – including art, social and industrial history & heritage – will show you why this very special alternative East London location by the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park is well…
Places Left on Free Clapton Tour This Sun for Hackney Council
There are still some places left on Sunday’s walk around the waterways of Clapton, run by Hackney Tours for/with Hackney Council (scroll down, see below details).If you don’t know the area, it’s a beautiful spot with wide open spaces and all sorts of rare creatures and plants are waiting to be discovered there. If you…
Hackney Tours: East LDN Creative Exploration 